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verb annoy persistently
noun someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
verb harass with persistent criticism or carping
originFrom Middle English tesen, from Old English tǣsan (“to tease”), from Proto-West Germanic *taisijan (“to separate, tug, shred”).
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